Portrait of a Canon Regular, painted by the maestra in 1552, was exhibited at the Winter Show, art fair held at the Park Avenue Armory.

The expression is: “handed to you on a silver plate”. But a recent breakthrough came to me on a painted ceramic one. Following the clues on that plate led me to solve a small historical puzzle: who ...

Experts have long assumed that a painting at London's National Gallery is one of many replicas of an original Dürer portrait. Now, a new book claims that this cracked copy is the real deal ...

Fly: To Basle with Ryanair on Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays ...

The National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington DC is one of the world’s finest museums. The collection contains works from the early Italian Renaissance ...

If you want to know who’s on the rise in live music, The National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) just dropped its annual cheat sheet of the most exciting up and coming artists of the past year.

Lucile Gauvain uses medieval imagery of death, chaos and revelry to parse contemporary life. Courtesy of artist and House of Fine Arts. Represented by The House of Fine Arts gallery in London, Gauvain ...

The medieval period, also known as the Middle Ages, lasted roughly from the 5th to 15th centuries in Europe. It was a time of massive political, social, and cultural change which was marked by the ...

Portrait of Leonardo da Vinci. Credit: Public Domain. In a New York City lab microbial geneticist Norberto Gonzalez-Juarbe leaned over a fragile Renaissance drawing and gently rubbed its surface — ...

In 1848, a year of political revolution across Europe, seven young Englishmen formed an artistic alliance aspiring to rebel against the contemporary Victorian art world. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood ...

The Cartier Foundation and Art Basel Paris illustrate the growing influence of private initiative in the French capital’s cultural scene. The trend is at once revitalizing the industry and threatening ...